It was ahead of its time in the same way that Faith No More was ahead of its time.

There still isn't a DVD release of that series, is there?

On June 30, 2009, Shout! Factory released the complete first season of Parker Lewis Can't Lose on DVD in Region 1. The 4-DVD set includes special features including exclusive interviews with the cast, crew, and creators. Although the cast and crew discuss both Melanie Chartoff and her character, Grace Musso, Chartoff herself does not appear in any of the supplementary materials. Shout! Factory released Season 2 on January 26, 2010. Supplementary materials were fewer, and Chartoff also declined to participate. Shout! has said that they currently have no plans to release the final season on DVD in the US, citing the expense of music clearances and the disappointing sales of the second season. However, season 3 was released for the German market in April 2011 by German company Turbine Medien.

/Melanie Chartoff must be just like her b*tch principal character in real life

It was ahead of its time in the same way that Faith No More was ahead of its time.

There still isn't a DVD release of that series, is there?

On June 30, 2009, Shout! Factory released the complete first season of Parker Lewis Can't Lose on DVD in Region 1. The 4-DVD set includes special features including exclusive interviews with the cast, crew, and creators. Although the cast and crew discuss both Melanie Chartoff and her character, Grace Musso, Chartoff herself does not appear in any of the supplementary materials. Shout! Factory released Season 2 on January 26, 2010. Supplementary materials were fewer, and Chartoff also declined to participate. Shout! has said that they currently have no plans to release the final season on DVD in the US, citing the expense of music clearances and the disappointing sales of the second season. However, season 3 was released for the German market in April 2011 by German company Turbine Medien.

/Melanie Chartoff must be just like her b*tch principal character in real life

Wow, they did a pretty horrible job of publicizing that, then. I'll have to scour the Internets and see if anyone has done anything creative with the German release.

serial_crusher:It was a noble effort. I would have liked if it had failed.But I'd settle for just having us all use UTC for everything. "oh no, I have to go to work at 1:00AM instead of 9:00AM now. Life is so hard!"

use 0100 and 0900 and then you don't need to worry about AM/PM ambiguity

Hey Subby, I was uploading low-res pictures of your mom at the time but I wasn't too busy to notice and mock "Internet Time". It would have had a (slightly) better chance of success if they had synced it to UTC instead of to their corporate HQ's timezone.

Ahh the swatch, from what I remember about them, they were popular in the 80s and as a kid with no money and folks who wouldnt pay 50 bucks for one, guess i wasnt cool. Damn rich kids that had like 6 of them up one arm.

Years ago I had been doing PHP programming for a while, and was working at a place where I only had access to a web server running classic ASP. Since VBScript had about as many built-in functions in the whole language as PHP did just for arrays, I started making ASP versions of some native PHP functions to make coding easier.

One of them was date(), which supports about 40 different tokens for representing aspects of dates and times. So I'm going through the list, two-digit month here, abbreviated weekday there, whatever, and then I get to B.

"What the hell is Swatch Internet time?"

/actually added the code to display swatch internet time, even though I obviously had no use for it//meh-ish csb///sorry i wasted your .beat

There are some things about humanity that can be changed much more easily than others.The way we keep time, that's really down there at the core. Nothing short of "downfall of modern civilizations" or "alien overlord invasion" type stuff could ever make an opportunity for that.

So, that said, you have to wonder which executive thought they could do it with a watch.A particularly crummy looking watch at that.

/I owned a swatch back when it was awesome./But not "rewrite your life" awesome.

Igor Jakovsky:Ahh the swatch, from what I remember about them, they were popular in the 80s and as a kid with no money and folks who wouldnt pay 50 bucks for one, guess i wasnt cool. Damn rich kids that had like 6 of them up one arm.

bingo. swatch was the wristwatch's last great hurrah. they glorified consumption for the sake of it. people collected them and there were limited edition issues. a definite dooshbag trophy. i'm surprised swatch is still in business.

Igor Jakovsky:Ahh the swatch, from what I remember about them, they were popular in the 80s and as a kid with no money and folks who wouldnt pay 50 bucks for one, guess i wasnt cool. Damn rich kids that had like 6 of them up one arm.

Well, in all honesty it helped me identify the classmates who would later be serving me coffee or changing my tires.

KrispyKritter:Igor Jakovsky: Ahh the swatch, from what I remember about them, they were popular in the 80s and as a kid with no money and folks who wouldnt pay 50 bucks for one, guess i wasnt cool. Damn rich kids that had like 6 of them up one arm.

bingo. swatch was the wristwatch's last great hurrah. they glorified consumption for the sake of it. people collected them and there were limited edition issues. a definite dooshbag trophy. i'm surprised swatch is still in business.

You've apparently never heard of the Casio Baby-G, which was the late 1990s - early 2000s version of Swatch but cost a lot more due to the popularity and limited availability.

The only reason I'd wear a wristwatch is if I had finally caved and bought something from Tokyoflash. Wantwantwantwantwant.

WhyteRaven74:KrispyKritter: i'm surprised swatch is still in business.

It's one of the biggest watch companies in the world.

True.In fact, most of the swiss made luxury watchmakers use/buy swatch movements as core components in their watches. All these watchmakers do is add some extra features and assemble the watches in their own made watch cases.ETA is the movement manufacturer (part of the swatch group).

if_i_really_have_to:KrispyKritter: Igor Jakovsky: Ahh the swatch, from what I remember about them, they were popular in the 80s and as a kid with no money and folks who wouldnt pay 50 bucks for one, guess i wasnt cool. Damn rich kids that had like 6 of them up one arm.

bingo. swatch was the wristwatch's last great hurrah. they glorified consumption for the sake of it. people collected them and there were limited edition issues. a definite dooshbag trophy. i'm surprised swatch is still in business.

You've apparently never heard of the Casio Baby-G, which was the late 1990s - early 2000s version of Swatch but cost a lot more due to the popularity and limited availability.

The only reason I'd wear a wristwatch is if I had finally caved and bought something from Tokyoflash. Wantwantwantwantwant.

When I was a kid, it was the calculator watch that was the REAL status symbol. That's probably because I am a nerd. Also, Bugle Boys. I always thought their slogan should be, "Bugle Boys - Now with 250% More Pockets!"

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.